Re: squeeze-proposed-updates contains lenny packages

[Thilo Six <T.Six@gmx.de>]

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote the following on 11.02.2011 22:55

Hello

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>> Is this a bug and should be reported or this intentionally?
> 
> "lenny" in the version string is usually an indicator that the package was 
> built in the lenny environment instead of the default (unstable) environment.

That is why it made me wonder. This and given it was just today that a quite
large number of those packages appeared at once.

I've downloaded the Packages.bz2 from {squeeze,lenny}-proposed-updates and
compared those:

$ sed '{/Version/!d ; /lenny/!d}' Packages-squeeze-proposed-updates | wc -l
233

$ sed '{/Version/!d ; /lenny/!d}' Packages-lenny-proposed-updates | wc -l
231

> It doesn't immediately indicate that the package is inappropriate for 
> Squeeze.
> 
> In this case, it is probably an upload that was scheduled before the Lenny -> 
> Squeeze transition but finished after the transition.  At least one security 
> update has done this and is currently being repackaged for oldstable.  It's 
> possible it also happened with something that was targeting stable-proposed-
> updates.
> 
> This package won't cause any problems where it is at, so a bug is not 
> appropriate for it being present in squeeze-proposed-updates.  However, if 
> you think this should appear in lenny-proposed-updates and it isn't there, 
> you should make sure the maintainer is notified.

Now how to find out those 2 packages which are in squeeze-proposed-updates but
not in lenny-proposed-updates?

If i understand you correctly the debian workflow is to upload all
stable-updates to s-p-u and then the SRM moves those to o-p-u afterwards?
If so then i think there is no need to worry for me anymore because previously i
thought those two flavours were separated.

Thanks.
-- 
bye Thilo

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